Especially colorful and political

The climate is changing, democracy is in crisis, prosperity is in danger: these are times that are no laughing matter? Thousands of visitors and numerous participants of the bamberger carnival parade on tuesday, 25. February, will see it quite differently and will not leave the field to the black painters also this year.

The bamberger carnival reaches its climax with the carnival parade. Just in time for the carnival season in bamberg, the chairman of the bamberg council of eleven, pius schiele, and city marketing director klaus stieringer have agreed on a unified motto for the carnival season. Thus there is to the BRK-rosenmontagsball today in the brick building and to the carnival procession on tuesday in the bamberg city center the slogan "circus (in the brick building) – manege frei fur diese schau!" in addition to the main motto, other themes that moved the year 2019 or will move the year 2020 will also be seen on the carnival parade or. To be experienced, it says in a press release of the city marketing bamberg. Especially attractive in view of the upcoming municipal elections: the parade offers bamberg associations, parties and companies the opportunity to present themselves to the bamberg public with wit, humor and a clear message.

Around 50 carnival floats, carnival groups, clubs, gardens and marching bands, as well as many carnival fans in disguise on the side of the streets, will ensure plenty of good cheer and transform the streets of the world cultural heritage site into a rough carnival mile, according to klaus stieringer of the bamberg city marketing department. Start of the parade is tomorrow at 13.33 o’clock (line-up of the train participants from 12 onwards).30 o’clock) from markusplatz to the concert and congress hall in mubstrabe. The procession then continues along kapuzinerstrabe – am kranen – lange strabe – schonleinsplatz – willi-lessing-strabe – heinrichsdamm – hauptwachstrabe and ends at maxplatz. Directly after the bamberger faschingsumzug the elferrat of the BRK will storm the bamberger rathaus together with the MCC memmelsdorf and rub the city sovereignty to itself.

The roadblocks

During the carnival procession are of 13.30 to ca. 15.30 o’clock the following streets are closed to traffic: mubstrabe – weide – markusplatz – kapuzinerstrabe – am kranen – lange strabe – schonleinsplatz – willi-lessing-strabe – heinrichsdamm – hauptwachstrabe – fleischstrabe – holzmarkt. In the adjacent streets there may also be temporary obstructions, writes the city marketing in the press release further